We’re looking for a Manager IT, Enterprise Architecture
to lead the development and evolution of WorkSafeBC’s enterprise architecture
practice and help shape the organization’s future technology direction.
In this role, you’ll align technology strategy with
business priorities, establish a compelling enterprise technology vision, and
guide the development of architecture principles, standards, patterns, and
roadmaps. You’ll lead a team of enterprise architects, strengthen architecture
governance, and help ensure technology investments deliver measurable
organizational value.
As a key leader within the Business Engagement Services Department,
you’ll build strong partnerships across business and technology teams, provide
strategic guidance on complex enterprise decisions, and ensure architecture
supports secure, reliable, maintainable, and interoperable solutions.
This is an opportunity to influence how enterprise
architecture enables business transformation across a complex, predominantly
custom-built technology environment.
How you’ll make a difference
You’ll help teams across WorkSafeBC solve problems,
leverage technology, and plan new ways to service B.C. workers and employers.
Where you’ll work
We serve the workers and
employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we
collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.
This role combines time in
our offices with flexibility for remote work.
You will thrive in this role if you:
- Connect organizational
priorities to practical enterprise architecture direction.
- Have led enterprise
architects or senior technology professionals in complex organizations.
- Can build, mature, and
strengthen the credibility of an enterprise architecture practice.
- Understand how to shape
custom-built software into secure, reusable, maintainable, and interoperable
capabilities.
- Balance long-term
technology strategy with immediate business priorities and delivery pressures.
- Build trusted executive
relationships and influences decisions without relying on formal authority.
- Translate complex
technical issues into clear business outcomes, risks, trade-offs, and
recommendations.
- Use architecture
governance to enable timely, informed decision-making.
- Lead change initiatives
effectively across Agile, product, project, and DevOps environments.
- Apply practical,
evidence-based judgment to emerging technologies and demonstrates measurable
enterprise architecture value.
Your background and experience
- A bachelor’s degree in
computer science, information technology, engineering, business technology
management, or a related discipline.
- At least eight years of
progressive experience in enterprise architecture, technology strategy,
software architecture, or a related field.
- At least five years of
experience leading enterprise architects, senior technical professionals, or
multidisciplinary technology teams.
- Experience developing
enterprise technology strategies, target-state architectures, standards,
capability models, and multi-year roadmaps.
- Experience building or
maturing an enterprise architecture practice and leading governance, standards,
technical debt, and architectural risk management.
- Experience guiding
architecture in complex, custom-built software and modern delivery
environments, supported by broad knowledge of applications, integration, data,
cloud, cybersecurity, AI, and software engineering.
- Strong executive
partnership and communication skills, with the ability to resolve competing
priorities, guide investment decisions, and demonstrate measurable enterprise
value.
We’ll consider an equivalent combination of education
and experience.
Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:
- Consent to a criminal record
check and successfully meet record clearance.
- Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada
Who we are
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.
What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.
Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.
Learn more: Discover who we are.
Our benefits
As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
- 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
- Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
- Optional leave arrangements
- Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)
Salary: $150,000 - $165,000/annually
Want to apply?
- Please note that we will be starting assessments prior to the closing date.
We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.